Electric bikes

NeptunePride

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Hello everybody.

I am heading to NAPS this summer and I have been thinking of getting a electric bicycle. Midshipmen candidates are allowed to use vehicles but midshipmen at USNA are not allowed to have cars for the first 2 years and are NEVER allowed to have a motorcycle. (From my knowledge)

So I would like to get an “electric bicycle” that coincidentally can get up to 75mph. The rules doesn’t say anything about owning a bicycle.

Does anybody know if this is possible or allowed?

Thank you very much.
 
So I would like to get an “electric bicycle” that coincidentally can get up to 75mph. The rules doesn’t say anything about owning a bicycle.
You MIGHT want to look again at how fast electric bikes actually go on electric power.

Hint: They are regulated.
 
Future mid a year+ hence, meet Mid Regs, USNA Midshipman Regulations, your handy reference governing almost every aspect of a mid’s life at USNA. You don’t have to take on the burden of defining whether something is a bicycle or a motorcycle or something else.

Not sure what rules you were looking at, but Mid Regs are the primary reference.



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Future mid a year+ hence, meet Mid Regs, USNA Midshipman Regulations, your handy reference governing almost every aspect of a mid’s life at USNA. You don’t have to take on the burden of defining whether something is a bicycle or a motorcycle or something else.

Not sure what rules you were looking at, but Mid Regs are the primary reference.



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My dream was just shattered. I guess they thought about it before me haha

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One of my NAPS classmates had a motorcycle there. I think he put it in storage when we reported for I-Day.

I had already crashed mine while active duty in Germany, and sold the wreckage off to another soldier from my battalion before i arrived at NAPS. I didn't get another one until after I DOR'ed.

There's a very good reason they don't want 18 - 25 year olds on machines that potentially are faster that supercars and no exterior protection. Bad ROI for the Navy if they allow you something to easily damage/kill yourself.
 
One of my NAPS classmates had a motorcycle there. I think he put it in storage when we reported for I-Day.

I had already crashed mine while active duty in Germany, and sold the wreckage off to another soldier from my battalion before i arrived at NAPS. I didn't get another one until after I DOR'ed.

There's a very good reason they don't want 18 - 25 year olds on machines that potentially are faster that supercars and no exterior protection. Bad ROI for the Navy if they allow you something to easily damage/kill yourself.
Lol my son said “dad maybe I will sell my car and get a motorcycle for Cuba.” I said he ought to look to see if a golf cart is allowed because motorcycles are too dangerous for him. And then you could see the kid’s hamster with only three legs running around his head. Probably calculating roi and thinking if that would be cool or not.
 
My suggestion to my own kiddos was to wait until you get where you are going. And figure out the norms and culture. Before dropping a bunch of cash, or doing something that can’t be changed (ie: what kind of tattoo).

Segways, hoverboards, skateboards, electric scooters, boats, motorcycles, motor bikes….
 
Hello everybody.

I am heading to NAPS this summer and I have been thinking of getting a electric bicycle. Midshipmen candidates are allowed to use vehicles but midshipmen at USNA are not allowed to have cars for the first 2 years and are NEVER allowed to have a motorcycle. (From my knowledge)

So I would like to get an “electric bicycle” that coincidentally can get up to 75mph. The rules doesn’t say anything about owning a bicycle.
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Does anybody know if this is possible or allowed?

Thank you very much.
Don't do it.

Start your military career by telling the SF86 federal investigator that you have a foreign Chinese vendor contact. A slight whiff of this the investigator will turn into a martian with two antennas on his head.

Accident is bound to happen like getting run over and die. First three months you're extremely careful riding... Cool. Fourth month you relax and get in the zone and start getting reckless. Drivers see a bicycle going 8-9 mph... But your going at 35 mph.
 
So I would like to get an “electric bicycle” that coincidentally can get up to 75mph.

Now I am going to suggest you research the Navy slang term “sea lawyer.” The intent is clear in the Mid Regs.

Thank you CAPT MJ ! Sea Lawyer was the first thought that went through my mind when CAPT MJ posted the MIDN REGs. You have to be careful trying to interpret regulations, as they don't always keep up with the times, and some creative miscreant can always find a loophole.

I would always advise to focus on intent --if motorcycles aren't permitted, why would an "e-bike" that can go 75 mph be permitted, even if not expressly addressed in the Regs.

Trying to argue your way out a Class A offense based upon a technicality in the Regs isn't going to work out any better with a O-5/0-6 Batt(0) than my daughter trying to sea lawyer me when they were young.
 
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I drive our Kubota diesel RTV 900 to church a lot of Sundays … church is about 3 miles away over the mountain

It will do 25+ mph going downhill … I have “Farm Use” license plates on it … you don’t pay personal property tax, no licensing required, no insurance required … nothing …. It’s legal to travel up to 20 miles on the Interstate highways … State and local roads have No restrictions.

If you bring one to the Yard at Newport, you can help the maintenance crew in your spare time … the bed has a hydraulic lift … very convenient

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